Re: Repeated durations: pitches vs rests

[David Kastrup]

David Bellows <davebellows@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Timothy,
>
>> David Kastrup (who probably implemented the feature) comments on the
>> design decisions here
>
> Thanks for that. That is definitely not a use-case I had anticipated
> though it's nice to see that I'm not alone in wondering about the
> default behavior. And apparently my solution involving an alternate
> syntax (adding a ~ (tilde) to a rest to make LilyPond repeat the rest)
> is probably not worth the effort to implement or maintain.

You can also write things like

\new RhythmicStaff \drummode { tambourine
  4 4 \tuplet 3/2 { 8 8 8 } r8 8
  R1*8
  4 4 r8 8 4
}

and need to write "tambourine" only once.  If rests would override the
"tambourine", that would be a lot less convenient.

-- 
David Kastrup